Resources and Tools
Download, print or email our handy factsheets to help you through each stage of your financial separation
Government
ASIC Money Smart – Divorce and Separation
- First steps when you separate
- Adjusting to a change in income
- Getting advice when you separate
- Organising your will, insurance and superannuation
- Taking care of children during separation and divorce
Specific ASIC Resources:
Australian Departments of: Human Services and Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
- Australian Department of Human Services – Centrelink – separated parents
- Australian Department of Human Services – Child Support
- Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
Family Court of Australia and Federal Circuit Court of Australia
- Family Court of Australia – Separation & Divorce
- Application for Divorce
- Application for Consent Orders (do it yourself kit)
- Property and Financial Agreements and Consent Orders – What You Need To Know
Legal Resources and information
We pride ourselves on our ability to focus forward on the outcome you and your partner agree and have detailed resources that can assist you with our pragmatic approach to help you divide and move on.
Specific Caxton Legal Resources and Services:
- Free legal advice to people on a low income or experience other disadvantage
- Queensland Law Handbook
Specific Legal Aid Resources and guides:
Relationships and children
- Separation – legal and reporting requirements and living in same home
- When separating – video series designed to help couples considering or experiencing separation
- Life after separation – putting the pieces back together – Video
- You and family law – a short guide
- Consent orders, parenting orders and parenting plans guide
- Child support, Family Tax Benefit and your child care levels
- Organising child support and care arrangement for your children
- Do you have a grandchild in your care?
- Need help to sort out a family law problem? Ask Legal Aid Queensland
Domestic and family violence
- What are my rights if …I want to separate from my partner?
- Domestic and family violence information
- How to apply for a domestic violence order
- Separation services
- Children’s Contact Service
- Child Consultancy
- Family Dispute Resolution
- Family Relationship Centre
- Parenting Orders Programme
- Supporting Children after Separation
- Book an appointment